Daily Archives: September 20, 2013

By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Sep 10 2013 (IPS) – If Syria eventually agrees to relinquish its stockpile of chemical arms under the 1993 international Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), what of the six other countries that have either shown reluctance or refused to join the treaty? Currently, there are 189 states that have signed and ratified…

BY JEAN BRICMONT and DIANA JOHNSTONE The past ten days have seen what could be the start of an historic turning point away from endless war in the Middle East. Public opinion in the United States, in harmony with the majority of people in the world, has clearly rejected U.S. military intervention in Syria.…

Director of the Political-Military Affairs Bureau at the Israeli Defence Ministry Amos Gilad has praised the Egyptian military coup and described the new Egypt as a part of the “Sunni bloc that does not view Israel as a sworn enemy.” During the international summit of the Israeli Institute for Counter-Terrorism, held in Israel last week,…

by Nabil Al-Bukiri The fallout from the coup in Egypt includes a number of answers to questions regarding political and security issues since the fall of the Soviet Union. The collapse of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact was a historic turning point in the strategies adopted by the US and the capitalist West. America, for…

Former Egyptian presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq has publically admitted, for the first time, that the United Arab Emirates provided Egyptian security agencies and the Ministry of Interior with weapons and equipment in order to suppress protestors supporting President Mohammed Morsi. This revelation drove a source close to an international legal team to announce to Asrar…

by Pepe Escobar Obama-Rouhani: lights, camera, action The stage is set. By now it’s established Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has given full authority to the new administration of President Hassan Rouhani to talk directly to Washington about Iran’s nuclear program. This happened only a few days after US President Barack Obama leaked that letters…